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- noun. The definition of a sycophant is a person who tries to gain attention by flattering wealthy or influential people.An example of a sycophant is someone who agrees with everything his boss says and who brings his boss gifts once a month.n example of a sycophant is someone who agrees with everything his boss says and who brings his boss gifts once a month.
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std:: declval Returns an rvalue reference to type T without referring to any object. This function shall only be used in unevaluated operands (such as the operands of sizeof and decltype). T may be an incomplete type. This is a helper function used to refer to members of a class in unevaluated operands, especially when either the constructor signature is unknown or when no objects of that type can be constructed (such as for abstract base classes).
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- C16: from Latin sӯcophanta, from Greek sukophantēs, literally: the person showing a fig, apparently referring to the fig sign used in making an accusation, from sukon fig + phainein to show; sense probably developed from ``accuser'' to ``informer, flatterer''.
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- Leo Depuydt essays a definition and limitation of the function of the particle jh in Old and Middle Egyptian, proposing that it does not express contingency or dependency but rather a concept called sentence anaphora.
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Maths - Cayley Table This is different from the Cayley tables for finite groups (as explaned on the group theory pages) in that -1 appears in the body of the table but is not in the row or column identifiers. To make this into a valid Cayley table we need to have rows and columns for -1 and-i.here are an infinite number of scalar values so we can't make a table from that but the type and sign can be combined into a table. The Cayley Table is a good way to completely specify the multiplication rules of a multi-dimensional algebra.
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sycophant 1 His press conference on January 11 was all aimed toward a single moment. 2  The President was at his rostrum at the Élysée, élysée with a crowd of, courtiers, journalists and sycophants herded behind a velvet.  rope And swirling all around were coteries of agents, managers, execs, and moneymen; publicists and journalists, gawkers and sycophants. — 2 Daniel Fierman et al., Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2006. 3  Where his father liked to have sycophants, he likes to be with intellectuals.
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1.12. Dictionaries Â¶ The more general Python terminology for word and definition are key and value. Given a key, you can look up the corresponding value. The only restriction on the key is that it be an immutable type. This means that a value of the key’s type cannot be changed internally after it is initially created.
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- Bremond Sheriff. Find Bremond Texas sheriff's office, department, headquarters, jail and detention center. Sheriffs provide information on records, arrests, inmates, warrants, and mugshots. Bremond Sheriff.
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- graph-o-phonic cue-ing sys-tem. The graphophonic cueing system is one of the main four language cueing systems. This technique is also known as the phonic cueing system or the phonological cueing system. The graphophonic cueing system is based upon analyzing letters and phonemes.A phoneme is an irreducible phonetic unit corresponding to a particular sound. The prefix grapho-means writing. The word phonic means of or relating to sound.Graphophonic analysis studies the letter-sound relationships within a word.any readers know that the letter p is silent when beginning a word and followed by the letter s. Furthermore, the average reader knows that the letter a is soft when not followed by a vowel. The suffix-ist is pronounced as it appears. Thus, the word psalmist is pronounced as saelm-sälm. ist
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Patronus Charm Harry Potter casting a corporeal Patronus (form of stag) fending off hundreds of Dementors. Severus Snape's corporeal Patronus (the form of a doe). A corporeal Patronus is one that is fully-formed, taking the shape of bright-white, translucent animal.n fact, Harry Potter is one of the youngest known wizards able to cast a Patronus; he was taught how to do so in early 1994 at the age of thirteen by Remus Lupin. In a Dumbledore's Army lesson, Harry taught the members how to use the charm.
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Phant Latin root and similar words The phant part does indeed carry the meaning of something/someone that shows, from the Ancient Greek verb φαίνω phaino meaning to show.The syco- part is believed to have come from the word for fig, but it is somewhat mysterious how the word developed from fig-shower to its present meaning. The older meaning was informer.
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- 2. He is a veritable font of information. He is a veritable fount of information. source, fountain (a font of information). I have seen it both ways: He is a veritable font of information.He is a veritable fount of information. The first is referenced by M-W 's definition and seems to match the pronunciation I'm used to: source, fountain (a font of information).The second seems equally sensible given that 'fount' can be an abbreviation for 'fountain'.. He is a veritable font of information. He is a veritable fount of information. source, fountain (a font of information). I have seen it both ways: He is a veritable font of information.
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deponent 1 (of some Latin, Greek, or Old Irish verbs) Having passive form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning. ( 2 law) A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her. ( grammar) A deponent verb.
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Definition of 'sycophant' Word origin of 'sycophant'. C16: from Latin sӯcophanta, from Greek sukophantēs, literally: the person showing a fig, apparently referring to the fig sign used in making an accusation, from sukon fig + phainein to show; sense probably developed from 'accuser' to 'informer, flatterer'. Word Frequency.
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- DEF is a key component of Selective Catalytic Reduction technology, developed to meet the strict EPA and CEPA diesel emissions standards in place since January 2010. The purity of your DEF product is critical as impurities will cause the fluid not to work properly. This means:
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std:: max The signature of the comparison function should be equivalent to the following: bool cmp(const Type1 &a, const Type2 &b); The signature does not need to have const & , but the function object must not modify the objects passed to it. The types Type1 and Type2 must be such that an object of type T can be implicitly converted to both of them.
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- An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. [1913 Webster] A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.
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- WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2017. am•phib•o•ly (am fib′ə lē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -lies. Philosophyambiguity of speech, esp. from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose. Also called amphibology.
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- Historical Examples. 1  The character in this case is an inhibitor of tail development. 2  On account of this weakness of the inhibitor in the germ-plasm of No. 117 that inhibitor is rarely fully activated. 3  In this case we may conceive that an unusually potent condition of the inhibitor wholly stopped the development of the tail.
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sycophant sycophant was our Word of the Day on 08/27/2015. Hear the podcast! Examples of sycophant in a sentence. His press conference on January 11 was all aimed toward a single moment. The President was at his rostrum at the Élysée, with a crowd of courtiers, journalists, and sycophants herded behind a velvet rope.
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- 1 Dirimens copulatio. . . . [is] a form of amplification, an essential rhetorical tactic that turns up the volume as you speak. 2  In a presentation, you can amplify by layering your points: 'Not only do we have this, but we also.
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#define Directive (C/C++) (See the examples under Token-Pasting Operator (##) .). The #undef directive causes an identifier's preprocessor definition to be forgotten. See The #undef Directive for more information. If the name of the macro being defined occurs in token-string (even as a result of another macro expansion), it is not expanded. A second #define for a macro with the same name generates a warning unless the second token sequence is identical to the first.
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Person, Personality The use of prosopon for person indicates also a more external conception of personality than the modern. With the Hebrews the nephesh was the seat of personality, e.g. Thou wilt not leave my soul (nephesh) to Sheol (Psalms 16:10); Thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol (Psalms 30:3).
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What is DEF? DEF is a key component of Selective Catalytic Reduction technology, developed to meet the strict EPA and CEPA diesel emissions standards in place since January 2010. The purity of your DEF product is critical as impurities will cause the fluid not to work properly. 1  This means: 2  Your vehicle may not be meeting the emissions standards — you may be liable to fines. 3  Your engine may use more fluid than required. 4  You may not achieve optimum fuel consumption.
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Difficult People and How to Handle Them They'll yes you to death in lieu of having a meaningful conversation. 1  The Blowhard is stuck on him or herself and full of useless self-serving jabber. 2  The Sycophant seeks favor by flattering people. 3  The Brownnoser is motivated by approval and goes out of his/her way to impress those he or she deems important.
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- False idol worshiper, money grubbing, ass kissing, dirt bags who think they're better than other people when they're actually the scum of the earth. Wow, those Jews who killed Jesus were sycophants. They only cared about money, and political power.